A collection of 6 posts
Fascinating quote in a New York Times piece on the Brexit-backing British newspapers (and principally, The Sun): With little regard for the truth — he was previously fired by The Times of London for making up a quote — Mr. Johnson wrote…
This really is a mark of just how efficient and savvy the media machine around Trump is: But though the term [Fake News] hasn’t been around long, its meaning already is lost. Faster than you could say “Pizzagate,” the…
David Remnick writing for the New Yorker about Trump’s meeting the the US press: “But he truly doesn’t seem to understand the First Amendment,” the source continued. “He doesn’t. He thinks we are supposed to say what…
Huffington Post, July 2015: After watching and listening to Donald Trump since he announced his candidacy for president, we have decided we won’t report on Trump’s campaign as part of The Huffington Post’s political coverage. Instead, we…
A touching moment in Rachel Sylvester & Alice Thomson’s interview with Alan Johnson for The Times: When people ask him how many children he has, he always says four — sometimes even making up a job for Natalie. “It’s…
